IFTTT, pronounced like the word GIFT, will automate tasks based around the 'If This Then That' statement. In other words, IFTTT puts the Internet to work for you by generating simple connections with online products that you use every day. Going further, Amazon Echo and other digital assistants are technologies that you didn’t know you needed until now and they work very well with IFTTT. In this webinar: • Understand what the Internet of Things is and how it will change the world. • Learn how to use IFTTT to connect with a variety of products and services. • Explore other automating tools like Zapier, Hootsuite, Buffer and others. • Gain access to resources to help you become more efficient online.

1. Put the Internet of Things to
Work Using IFTTT, Amazon
Echo, and other tools.

2. Agenda
• Understand what the Internet of Things is and how it will change the world.
• Learn how to use IFTTT to connect with a variety of products and services.
• Explore other automating tools like Zapier, Hootsuite, Buffer and others.
• Gain access to resources to help you become more efficient online.

3. .com/cmairn
.net/chadmairn

4. Source: Google.com

5. Image source: https://goo.gl/Zlpp3R

6. Source: http://goo.gl/N4YyQj

7. https://ifttt.com/eve_for_tesla

8. Images source: http://goo.gl/s651U8
Smart Cement

9. Source: Google.com

11. A blast from the past …

12. Using Yahoo! Pipes
Note: This pipe was modified and this screencast was recorded to show how to truncate each RSS feed to only 5 items,
use the Union Module to merge up to 5 separate sources into a single list of items, sort them by title, and use the Unique
Module to remove duplicate items. This screencast was embedded in another video for the Internet Librarian 2009
conference.
Video: https://youtu.be/080sGGVJVQo

13. Read more at: http://goo.gl/QtNo3M
Yahoo Pipes Alternatives
Many of these may be
discontinued soon!
Pipe2Py
RSS Percolator
Superpipes
FeedsAPI
Pypes
ClickScript
WebHookIt
Mulesoft
Quadrigram
Feedly + IFTTT solution
Huginn

14. IFTTT 101
• IFTTT (pronounced like “gift”) is an abbreviation for "If This Then That“
• Recipes are simple connections between products and apps.
• DO Recipes run with just a tap and enable you to create your own personalized
Button, Camera, and Notepad.
• IF Recipes run automatically in the background. Create powerful connections
with one simple statement — if this then that.

15. • Channels are the basic building blocks of Recipes.
Each Channel has its own Triggers and Actions.
• The if part of an IF Recipe is a Trigger.
• The then part of an IF Recipe is an Action.
• Pieces of data from a Trigger are called Ingredients.
IFTTT 101

18. Let’s test this recipe:
One person please visit: https://www.facebook.com/chadmairn
and tag “Chad Mairn” in a photo and we’ll see what happens.

19. 1.
2.

21. IFTTT works with CloudBit to send and receive
information from your littleBits circuit[s].

23. Visit http://littlebits.cc/tips-
tricks/tips-tricks-the-cloudbit-ifttt
for other CloudBit/IFTTT ideas

24. Simple Button to connect an Arduino to IFTTT
Build it! http://goo.gl/sufSRe
You can now send an e-mail, post to
Facebook, text a friend, or send a tweet
with a single button!

25. Let’s check some out! https://goo.gl/QOOD84

26. https://ifttt.com/maker

27. Receive a web request

28. Make a web request
Shhh ... Be sure to keep your key a secret!
Arduino HTTP Requests: http://playground.arduino.cc/Code/WebClient
Python HTTP Requests (Raspberry Pi) http://www.python-requests.org/en/latest

29. https://www.hackster.io/ifttt/projects

30. IFTTT Limitations?

31. IFTTT Limitations?

32. http://pcmcon.tumblr.com/

33. Download it today! https://goo.gl/lo7KaG

34. Download it today! https://goo.gl/zNhdbG

35. Natural Language Processing
• Car User Interface (CUI?)
• Voice biometrics
• How do we interact with connected devices?
• How WILL we interact with connected devices?
• App based? Too many apps for one device (e.g., Philips Hue)
• Sentient?
• Hello Natural Language!
• Internet of Things (IoT) will capture, track, and share data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Turing Test

36. Digital Assistants
Image source: http://goo.gl/obFOfu

37. More info: http://goo.gl/xxZQGx

39. buffer.com Demo

40. https://zapier.com/

41. https://hootsuite.com/
Manage multiple networks, schedule posts, and engage
your audience, all in one place.

42. .com/cmairn
.net/chadmairn

43. spcilab. .com
Connect with the iLab …
iLab@spcollege.edu
/groups/spcilab
.com/spcilab.
.com/innovation-lab-makerspace-spc

44. Want to
Hangout?
gplus.to/chadmairn